[QCLUG] mount: /dev/hdb: can't read superblock

[robmohr@earthnet.net]

Quoting Mark Riedesel <mriedesel@gmail.com>:

> Audio CDs can't be mounted, they technically don't contain a
> filesystem, just multiple tracks of audio data.
>
This is a cdrom disc with mp3 tracks.  I just want to copy the files (  
this is a foreign language cd ) to the hard drive, and then to load  
the mp3 files onto a portable mp3 player.


When I place the cdrom disc into the physical drive, the SuSE pops up  
a gui asking what player to use, Kaffine, RealPlayer, ect or to copy  
via a filter, or to take no action.

I have tried all combinations of the above.  At one point it starts to  
copy the files but it "stalls" out.  The word stall is not mine; it  
actually says stalls on the window.

It was at this point that I skunked about the online forums and got  
the sense that others are having trouble mounting cdroms with the  
autoload-gui type actions that are prevalent with the current distros.  
  Thinking this is a case of too much user automation for my own  
benefit, I decided that I just need to do a manual, console command  
line mount of the disc to copy the files over to the hard drive.

This lead me back to the internet and in the linux forums I found  
several sensible examples of doing just this, manually mounting a  
cdrom.  I follow the instructions, but I can't get it to mount.

It seems odd to me that I can't mount this disc.  This disc does have  
mp3 files, WAV files and some other directories.

Using previous linux distros on older boxes I did not have any trouble  
doing what I want to do here, a nominal disc mount.

Mohr

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